An introduction to web applications architecture

Further reading

A range of links are given below if you have wish to learn more about some of the technologies or products mentioned in this course.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (2017) [Online]. Available at https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ (Accessed 29 May 2017).
Google Compute Engine (n.d.) [Online]. Available at https://cloud.google.com/compute/ (Accessed 29 May 2017).
REST (2015) Representational State Transfer [Online]. Available at https://developer.ibm.com/articles/ws-restful/ (Accessed 15 March 2017).
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) standards (2012), IBM DeveloperWorks [Online]. Available at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-soa-standards/ (Accessed 28 May 2017).
SOAP (2004) Simple Object Access Protocol, [Online]. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/ (Accessed 15 March 2017).

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